8:50 pm. 14.500 for Olivia’s bars!! Seals silver with her, a big jump from fourth after the third rotation.

8:47 pm. Olivia Greaves, United States, UB: Hop change to piked Jaeger, nice air and shape on that. HUUUUGE Church, then a Downie!! Fab. Pak, nice, van Leeuwen, clean, lovely handstand before toe-on to stalder full RIGHT in handstand on the bar, into a full-in, brilliant routine especially after the earlier rotation nonsense! Seriously lovely.

8:46 pm. Shizuku Sonezaki, Japan, FX: Tucked full-in, 1.5 to front layout, good on both. Excellent triple full! All three of these juniors had triples. Big Popa. Hit the last pass. Good routine!

8:45 pm. Skye Blakely, United States, UB: Toe-on to Ricna to Pak, very clean! Just tiny foot things. Van Leeuwen, a little crooked, toe half to front giant half, stalder to stalder full, bends her arms in the middle of it and kind of falls over but stays on, full-in with a hop back. Oooooof.

8:42 pm. Lilly Lippeatt, United States, UB: First time seeing her up close, she looks sooooo mature compared to last year when she still looked wee!! She actually looks like a mini Olivia from where I sit. Weiler half, arched over, Tkachev (possibly with some sort of root skill before it, I didn’t see the entry) to Pak, Maloney to bail, ugh, catches it with her body bent in half and legs askew, tries to keep going but gets quite crooked and has to fight to get it back. It takes a minute. Full-in with a hop.

Tiana Odessa, Australia, FX: FTY, I couldn’t see the landing, looked like a little bounce. Second vault is a layout, really nice hollow shape on that. Solid!

Kaylen Morgan, United States, UB: Toe full, Maloney to Pak, huge air but way too close and has to hip circle around it. Still, she makes it look like it was meant to happen! That was an AMAZING cover. Van Leeuwen, then a straddle Jaeger, but she falls. Ugh. A little muscled on her blind change to double front, little step back.

Catalina Santos-Moran Diaz, Germany, BB: Love her opening choreo sequence. Switch to split leap. Little bobble on a side aerial. I missed a few parts but overall this was very strong and she had nice presentation. Front layout dismount.

Clara Raposo, Canada, FX: Super fun routine. Tucked full-in, a tad low, beautiful double arabian. Ugh, crashed her double tuck right at the end. UGHHHH. QUEEN WHY. Her ending choreo sequence is so fantastic, she’s such a performer. Literally smiled getting up after smashing her whole body on that fall.

8:16 pm. Tiana Odessa, Australia, FX: Think she went for a ring full at the beginning! I was straight-on though so had zero look at her actual back leg. High double pike, great! 2.5 to front tuck, little step forward OOB. Switch ring to switch half, fab. Double full, wild on the landing, leg comes up but saves it. Full L turn to full pirouette. Double tuck, step back. Good work!

8:14 pm. Shizuku Sonezaki, Japan, BB: I think she fell early on. 😦 Gets her triple flight series around, a little wobbly, front aerial. Went wild on something after that and touched the beam but didn’t fall. Japan is really good at saves. A little short on her triple full rotation but love that she has a triple full off beam.

Olena Edmedes, Australia, FX: Double wolf turn, nice. Cartwheels up to the corner for her first pass, Double tuck, short but saves it from putting her hands down. 1.5 to front lay, super low but stands up out of it with no problems. Front full, some knee form, nice double full!

8:11 pm. Chloe Trisic, Australia, FX: Clean double tuck. I think her music is from Everest. At the beginning anyway. 2.5 is beautiful!! A little low coming out of her third pass into a punch front tuck. Hit the last pass, I believe a layout full.

Olivia Greaves, United States, VT: Big solid FTY, very clean.

Nonoka Mimii, Japan, BB: Hit her mount. Bhs bhs, misses the beam after the second one and does a layout down to the floor. Same. Sissone to split jump. Hit the dismount.

Skye Blakely, United States, VT: DTY, I couldn’t see her landing at all which means she probably got some distance since that’s where I’m blocked! Second vault is an FTY with a big hop back. This time she landed in my blind spot, and then bounced back OUT of it.

Umi Kawaguchi, Japan, BB: Side somi, big break at the hips but holds it. Side aerial, little check. Short on her bhs loso but good fight again. Straight jump full. Back tuck. Double full dismount. Really solid fight throughout that.

Samantha Olivier, Australia, FX: High double tuck, step back. Good leaps. 2.5, leg form and a little stumble. Front tuck through to double full is good!

Lea Marie Quaas, Germany, UB: She fell on absolutely everything in warmups. Pray for her. Blind change to front giant to big straddle Jaeger, good! Bail, legs apart but good, into a clear hip to toe on to toe shoot. Toe front half with a step. Not bad considering her warmup!

Rachael Riley, Canada, BB: Solid flight series! Switch leap into something that she wobbled on but stays on the beam. Full turn is good. Off on a side somi I believe. Or whatever she did was an acro skill that ended up facing sideways. 2.5 dismount, leg form and a step, chest forward.

Lola Laurent, France, FX: Sat her double pike. Swan Lake music. Lovely choreo down into a split. OMG the swan choreoooooo tears forever. Full Y turn. Front lay front pike gets a little rough form-wise. Switch ring is nice, into a ring leap. Excellent and lovely! Just the tumbling could use some fine-tuning.

7:43 pm. Skye Blakely, United States, FX: Double layout, nice in the air, a tad short with a little bounce back. Switch ring to tour jeté half. Tucked full-in, solid landing. Front double full to front tuck, step forward OOB. Fell on something like, on the floor after that? A turn I’m assuming, I was looking at Tom Forster to see if he was enjoying the routine and saw him and Maggie Haney jump back and yell “OHHHHH” hahaha. Well. Hit the last pass, at least.

7:41 pm. Olivia Greaves, United States, FX: I missed her first pass but saw that she hit it, good 2.5 for her second! Good double pike, little hop. Switch ring through to switch half. Jumps around another half. She does the Friends fist-bump gesture as choreo LOL love. Great double tuck. Solid routine.

Tiana Odessa, Australia, BB: Off on her punch front mount. Hit some skills after that, front aerial, split ring jump, good! Switch half, very nice extension, tiny bobble. Leg up and off again on her punch front. Clean double full dismount.

7:40 pm. Omg Lilly’s skill that I missed was a back full straight into a double tuck!!!!

7:39 pm. Olena Edmedes, Australia, BB: Front aerial into a jump, bhs loso, solid! Very nice side aerial. Grabs the beam 3/4 of the way through her double wolf turn. Transverse split jump half. Clean double full with a bounce in place. POTENTIAL!!!!

7:37 pm. Lilly Lippeatt, United States, FX: Great piked full-in to start. Ooh, something into a double tuck, a front lay half maybe? I didn’t see the entry, just that she did it STRAIGHT to the double tuck. Awesome. Front full for her third pass. Double pike, hop back. Great work!

Shizuku Sonezaki, Japan, UB: Crazy legs on her van Leeuwen, piked Gienger with some leg form, bail to toe shoot, a little close, blind change to front giant half, blind full, legs come apart, gets her swing back for the giants into her triple full layout dismount, love it!! Good rotation this time, it was a little short in warmups.

7:35 pm. Umi Kawaguchi, Japan, UB: Blind change to straddle Jaeger, some foot form issues, clean Pak. Full-out a bit too low, basically to her head but she’s still smiling.

Chloe Trisic, Australia, BB: Wobbled on an early acro skill before her transverse half jump. Hit the dismount.

Kaylen Morgan, United States, FX: Double tuck, tiny bounce. 1.5 to front pike is also good. Double full, some leg form but I only say that because it was really close to me so I could actually see it. If it was on the opposite side I would’ve been like “GREAT DOUBLE FULL!!” because I’m fully blind.

7:32 pm. Elena Davydova just said “you type so fast and know all the skills, great job!!!!!” because she watched me that entire first half of rotation two.

Jutta Verkest, Belgium, FX: Good double pike, stepped back but wasn’t sure if she went OOB. Black Eyed Peas, bless. Lots of cutesy hand choreo. Double wolf turn is clean. Front full with a step forward. Her choreo into the corner before her last pass is a fantastic sequence. Double full to finish, solid.

7:27 pm. Rachael Riley, Canada, UB: Toe-on to toe half, some leg separation, to front giant to piked Jaeger, legs totally apart. Pak with leg separation. Good handstand before stalder half to toe shoot, quite low but she somehow gets it…into a bit of a dead hang though. Has to re-cast. Blind full, and finishes with a double tuck, lunge forward. Well, compared to Elite Canada this was amazing, so happy to see her at least fight through it and hit.

7:26 pm. Stacy Bertrandt, Belgium, FX: This nutso version of Burlesque with 30 hours of Xtina screaming, god bless!!!! High double tuck, wobbly arms on the landing. Wobbly thorugh her wolf turn. Front full with a little step. Switch full, does it like a switch half, then brings her legs together and completes the twist. Good double full to finish, just some ankle form at the end.

Charlotte Beydts, Belgium, FX: Double tuck, a tad short, step forward. The rest was hit. Had lyrics from Grease in her routine but like, the womp bomp-a-loo-bomp lyrics so I guess they don’t count because they’re nonsense words?

7:09 pm. Skye Blakely, United States, BB: Love her mount. A tiny bit wobbly through her triple wolf turn. Excellent standing full, tiny bobble, gets applause. Super solid bhs loso. Perf front tuck, but she does it into a straddle jump, doesn’t get the jump quite there, and then stumbles on the landing, falling. 😦 😦 😦 Switch to switch half to back tuck is great. Front aerial into a split jump to a split jump half, check. Wolf jump to sissone to side aerial. This is stacked, could see her 100% still making the final with the fall. Double pike, chest isn’t bad, just a tiny step.

7:07 pm. Kaylen Morgan, United States, BB: Triple wolf turn, gets it! side somi, wobble. Off on bhs loso. Nice split leap to front aerial, side aerial is also clean. Lovely extension on her transverse split jump half. Comes in a bit low for the double tuck but gets it around, chest just down and a small step.

7:03 pm. Olivia Greaves, United States, BB: Hit wolf turn, front aerial, solid on her bhs loso. Random back tuck with a little bobble. Wobble on her switch leap, split jump to straddle jump, low on the latter. Side aerial, she missed this a million times in warmups, breaks at the hips here but stays on. Couldn’t see if she put her hand down though. Double tuck is nice, step back.

Tiana Odessa, Australia, UB: Toe half to front giant to piked Jaeger, almost a layout, but she falls. Pak, leg sep, off again after that.

Nonoka Momii, Japan, VT: FTY and Yurchenko layout, again really solid on both like Shizuku before her!

7:02 pm. Chloe Trisic, Australia, UB: Toe full, a little late, short handstand before toe shoot, a little close to the bar, blind change with nice form into a piked Jaeger, good! Hit the rest including a high full-in, good work!

Shizuku Sonezaki, Japan, VT: FTY and a Yurchenko layout, not bad on either.

7:00 pm. Umi Kawaguchi, Japan, VT: FTY, hit, bounce on the landing.

Olena Edmedes, Australia, UB: Caught her release and a Pak but then rested on the low bar. Muscled a cast again after that before finally getting her rhythm back. Legs apart a bit on a blind full, covers it well, double pike dismount.

Lilly Lippeatt, United States, BB: Bhs bhs layout, solid! Just some leg form. Transverse straight jump full with a bobble, hit jumps. Side aerial, switch leap to split leap, double pike is a little short, pulls her chest back but has a little stumble to hold it up.

6:55 pm. Santos-Moran Diaz, Germany, FX: Switch half into the corner. High double pike! Just a bounce back. Clean double tuck, bounced back. Switch leap to tour jeté half, some flexed feet but overall very nice. Popa. Double L turn. Front full, legs get a little tucked but she gets the landing. Her music ends with a series of cars honking.

6:52 pm. Jutta Verkest, Belgium, BB: Solid double wolf turn. Really nice extension on her leaps. Tiniest adjustments on bhs loso. Side somi, a bit too far back in her shoulder angle, tries to pull it up but she can’t, fall. Layout full dismount.

6:50 pm. Stacy Bertrandt, Belgium, BB: Good back handspring mount. Bhs loso almost solid, just corrects a bit on a little wobble. Switch leap, big wobble on something near the end, good sissone to wolf jump. Hit the dismount.

Rachael Riley, Canada, VT: Yurchenko 1.5, a little low on the landing but not bad!

Charlotte Beydts, Belgium, BB: Good bhs loso. The rest was great, very clean and solid.

Lea Marie Quaas, Germany, FX: Hit her opening pass. Her music started with an EAR-PIERCING WHISTLE and there are like, bird calls that are equally headache-enducing throughout. God bless. Second pass was a 1.5 to punch front I believe, also hit her front full. Double full, legs are basically crossed at the thighs, doesn’t seem super aware of her landing.

6:42 pm. Touch warm-up is underway, just about ready to go!

6:36 pm. Finally starting with the Junior Cup!!!

Canada and Japan start on vault, France and Australia start on bars, Belgium and the United States start on beam, and Germany starts on floor.

So many screams for local girl and reigning champion Zoé Allaire-Bourgie when she’s announced!